The English FA and FIFA are having a bit of a conflict over whether toallow the English football squad to wear remberance poppies on theirfootball shirts at Saturday’s friendly match against Spain. My idea isto make the whole shirt into a huge poppy.

One of the things that makes tennis such a great sport is the way the scoring works. Match scores are only ever reported in sets. For example today Rafa Nadal beat Robin Soderling 6-4, 6-2, 6-4. But the score of games in each set doesn’t tell you the whole the story. Here is a different way to look at the match: The chart shows the cumulative points won or lost by each player. You can see how the first half of the match was quite evenly balanced, tending towards Nadal most of the time. However, at the start of the third game in the second set Rafa Nadal turned on the pressure taking the cumulative score from 0 to -20 in his favour. At which point he was winning 6-4, 6-2 : and 0:2 in games in the third set. Soderling worked hard to fight back but Nadal kept the pressure on for the rest of the match. Total points played = 181 Nadal won 100:81.

Last year one of the big Spanish beer companies sponsored the production of a short (30 minutes) film called Universos “created” by 3257 people with the help of TV directors José Corbacho and Juan Cruz:

Wikipeli – which is Spanish for “Wikifilm” – has recently started the collaborative process on a second film – directed by Spanish sci-fi director Jaume Balaguero.

Most contributions seem to be via votes rather than wiki-style contributions – but at least there is something happening – unlike A Swarm of Angels (http://aswarmofangels.com/) which seems to have died from a surfeit of graphic design.